Etymology

locking

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Today it means: The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process. Full definition →

English lock ← Middle English lok ← Old English loc
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*lewg-
  2. Proto-Germanic*luką
  3. Proto-West Germanic*lok
  4. Old Englishloc
  5. Middle Englishlok
  6. Englishlock
  7. English todaylocking

From lock + -ing.

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